Ditto Doc Holliday at the O.K. Corral, who replied to an opponent’s threat that he would shoot him down with a laconic “you’re a daisy if you do.” And at the end of that gunfight, it was ...

The one gunfighter whose real life lives up to the legend, Burrough believes, is Wyatt Earp. ... Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday as well as Wyatt’s brothers, Virgil and Morgan Earp.

Bryan Burrough, the author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, recalls a time when expressing one’s preferred portrayal of Doc Holliday was character-defining barroom banter. “In ...

Doc, drunk and sweaty and hollow-eyed, confronts Ringo as passively as possible, while musing out loud over whether or not he should hate his fellow gunfighter. He jokes, eyes still passive and ...

Val Kilmer in 1993's 'Tombstone' as the gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday. - Credit: ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Val Kilmer’s death on Tuesday, from pneumonia at 65, hit Western movie fans ...

During the next few years, Kilmer was critically lauded as the alcoholic gunfighter Doc Holliday in the 1993 western “Tombstone.” Just before filming began, his father died of cancer.

Val Kilmer in 1993's 'Tombstone' as the gunfighter and gambler Doc Holliday. ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Val Kilmer ’s death on Tuesday, from pneumonia at 65, hit Western movie fans ...

1993's western Tombstone saw Kilmer relish in the swagger of Wild West gunfighter and dentist Doc Holliday in a performance nominated for Most Desirable Male at the MTV Music Awards.

In the 1993 Western "Tombstone", he played Old West gunfighter Doc Holliday. He had two commercial successes in 1995, co-starring with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the crime drama "Heat".

One of Holliday's last gunfights occurred in a saloon in Leadville. An arrogant gunfighter, Billy Allen, confronted Holiday. When Holliday replied that he carried no weapon, Allen continued to insult ...

He developed a reputation as a skilled card player and a quick-draw gunfighter. Holliday's partnership with Earp led him to become involved in law enforcement conflicts, including the famous ...